Shadowing Practice: Contemporary Topics 3 Unit 2 Lecture with Powerpoint - Learn English Speaking with Video

Let me begin by asking you to think about someone you believe is exceptionally talented.

Someone you were in school with or someone in your own family.

Okay, have you thought of someone?

Now my question to you is, how did that person become so talented?

Were they born that way?

Were they a fast learner?

Did they seem to love learning?

Were they unusually alert and curious?

My guess is that your answer to most of these questions is yes.

Well, today I'd like to talk about children who are very talented, children often referred to as gifted.

And I'll talk about three points concerning this topic.

First, I'll explain how these gifted children are identified.

Second, I'll talk about some of the personality characteristics of these children.

Third, I'll talk about how these gifted children approach learning.

They have very good learning strategies that all of us can learn to use.

All right, let's move on to the first point.

Now, how would you identify a gifted child?

Think of when you were in elementary school or high school.

I'm sure that you knew some students who exhibited exceptional talents.

Maybe they were particularly good at sports, mathematics, or arts.

They were easy to notice, right?

Well see if these ideas make sense to you.

First, giftedness is partly the result of untrained natural abilities.

We could call this an aptitude for something.

So when we see a very young child who shows above average athletic ability,

for example, we often conclude that the child has an innate ability for sports.

Now I just said above average ability.

And that's the second thing that we notice, the quality.

child's performance is special because it's surprisingly good, particularly when we consider the child's age.

For instance, a six-year-old who could play Mozart's Sonata in D major would be considered gifted.

The third way we can identify children is by the speed at which they learn.

They generally learn faster, make fewer mistakes, make the same mistake fewer times,

and need less practice than other children.

Some psychologists believe that this third point, speed of learning, is perhaps the best indicator that a child has special abilities.

Now, I'd like to highlight some personality characteristics of gifted children.

Of course, gifted children have many types of personalities.

So what I'm going to describe here are characteristics that are often but not always found in gifted children.

For one, gifted children are often very intense.

When they do something, especially something they enjoy, they devote all their energy and determination to it.

They can concentrate for a very long time.

Secondly, they tend to have high energy levels.

When they are young, they are constantly moving

and this degree of physical energy is often matched by a similar amount of mental and emotional energy.

Their minds are always in motion, always thinking, always looking for the next interesting puzzle to solve.

A final predominant characteristic is that they are often idealistic about the world, the people they know and their environment.

They can be perfectionist, especially where their own work is concerned.

Okay, now let's look at some of the ways that gifted children approach learning something.

Practical strategies that you and I can try.

The first approach is related to motivation.

Gifted children appear to be intensely curious about any and every topic.

They typically don't care whether the knowledge or skill is useful or not.

A second trait is that they are observant and they notice many details about things.

This This allows them to thoroughly understand whatever they are studying and to notice any inconsistencies.

Finally, they want to know the inner workings of things, so they are very interested in causes and effects.

In other words, they want to know the underlying principles

and use those principles for making generalizations and predictions about the thing they are studying.

I might also add here that they enjoy using their imagination.

Now let's pause a moment to think of what I've just said here about approaches to learning.

Gifted children are motivated.

They are alert and observant.

They concentrate intensely.

They try to understand cause and effect relationships, and they make an effort to think creatively.

How well could you and I learn to do something if we approached it like I just described?

My guess is that we could do pretty well.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Contemporary Topics 3 Unit 2 Lecture with Powerpoint”. Las palabras que más se repiten: gifted, learning, characteristic, notice, learn. Este vídeo tiene 64 frases y 736 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:30. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 134 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
characteristic sustantivo	/ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/	característica
intensely adverbio	/ɪnˈtɛnsli/	intensamente
concentrate verbo	/ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/	concentrar
aptitude sustantivo	/ˈæptɪˌtud/	aptitud, capacidad
creatively adverbio	/kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/	creativamente
generalization sustantivo		generalización
giftedness sustantivo		superdotación
idealistic adjetivo	/ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɪ.stɪk/	idealista
inconsistency sustantivo	/ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/	inconsistencia
innate adjetivo	/ɪˈneɪt/	innato, nato
learner sustantivo	/ˈlɜɹnəɹ/	aprendiz, aprendedor
perfectionist sustantivo	/pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/	perfeccionista
predominant adjetivo	/pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/	predominante
untrained adjetivo		no/poco/nada entrenado
devote verbo	/dɪˈvəʊt/	devotar, abocarse

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	are identified · would be considered · is often matched
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	children who are · students who exhibited

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'll, I'd, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: perfectionist /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/, exceptionally /ɪkˈsɛp(t)ʃənəli/, unusually /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/, prediction /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, creatively /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/, idealistic /ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɪ.stɪk/, inconsistency /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/, perfectionist /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: observant /əbˈzɝvənt/, creatively /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/, devote /dɪˈvəʊt/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: observant /əbˈzɝvənt/, puzzle /ˈpʌzəl/, pause /pɔːz/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, exhibit /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como characteristic, intensely, concentrate.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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